LibGuides: Astronomy: Find Articles & Datasets

Databases

NASA Data Center
NASA HEASARC Access a large library of data sets, Astronomy and Astrophysics resources, data sets from NASA telescopes and information about the different NASA telescopes, including how to submit observation proposals

Sloan Digital Sky Survey
US Naval Observatory & James Melville Gilliss Library Basic astronomical data and information, including access to the James M Gilliss library catalog. The James M Gilliss library hosts one of the most complete collections of astronomical literature in the world. Books may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Google Scholar Search for scholarly literature, and explore related works, citations, authors, and publications. Patents info and links to legal cases are also available here.

If you have a favorite Open Access data repository, please send the link so that we can include it in this list.

Astrophysics Source Code Library The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), founded in 1999 by Robert Nemiroff and John Wallin and a service of Michigan Technological University (MTU), takes an active approach to sharing astrophysical source code. ASCL's editors seek out both new and old peer-reviewed papers that describe methods or experiments that involve the development or use of source code, and add entries for the found codes to the library. This approach ensures that source codes are added without requiring authors to actively submit them, resulting in a comprehensive listing that covers a significant number of the astrophysics source codes used in peer-reviewed studies. ASCL is Open Access and is also supported by the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, the University of Maryland and NASA.
Zenodo Sponsored by CERN, this data repository is Open Access. The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for EC funded research. CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability and Zenodo was launched in May 2013. In support of its research programme CERN has developed tools for Big Data management and extended Digital Library capabilities for Open Data. Through Zenodo these Big Science tools could be effectively shared with the long-tail of research.